pRev. John (Jack) Hunt (age 72) unexpectedly passed away at his apartment in Pompano Beach, Florida on April 16, 2016. Rev. Hunt had recently been dealing with a host of health issues, including a lung emboli and heart disease. /pp He was born on June 5, 1943 in Watertown New York, the son of John E. and Margaret Bennett Hunt. /ppHe attended St. Patrick’s Elementary and Immaculate Heart Academy. He finished High School and Pre-Theology at Wadhams Hall Seminary in Ogdensburg, and then attended St. Bernards Seminary in Rochester. /ppHe was ordained to the priesthood by Most Rev. Stanislaus J. Brzana, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Ogdensburg, on May 24, 1969. /ppFather’s first assignment was assistant pastor at St. Mary’s, Champlain and St. Alexander’s in Morrisonville. In 1974 he was appointed to the faculty at Wadhams Hall. In 1980, in a cooperative ministry venture, Father Hunt was pastor of St. John’s, Keeseville and associate pastor at Immaculate Conception, Keeseville. In 1986, he was pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, Potsdam, pastor at St Patrick’s in Watertown in 91 and pastor at Notre Dame Ogdensburg in 1995. In 1999, he was administrator of both campus parishes of St. Francis of Assisi in Potsdam and St. Mary’s, Canton. In 2001 Father was pastor of St. Henry’s, DeKalb and Sacred Heart, Edwards. In 2004 he was pastor at St. Bartholomew, Old Forge, and St. Anthony of Padua, Inlet. Father retired from ministry in May, 2006./ppRev. Hunt was proceded in death by his Father & Mother of Watertown, NY and his Older Sister Jean Hunt Miller of Pittsford, NY./ppHe is survived by his brother Bill Hunt and his wife Ellen, of Johnstown, NY and Patricia Anderson of Watertown, who was raised in the Hunt family after the death of her Mother./ppHe is also survived by several cousins and three generations of nephews and nieces. /ppThere will be a Memorial Mass, for family and his fellow priests, in the Chapel of the Presentation at Wadams Hall. Interment of the ashes will be at Glenwood Cemetery, Watertown next to his parents./p
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